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Alternatively: I'm a 24-year-old student at the University of Memphis, majoring in Japanese, minoring in Weeaboo, with a certificate in being ridiculously nerdy. Inexplicably, everyone I meet in real life seems surprised that I am a nerd at all. I play just about every genre of games out there, with an especial focus on stultifyingly intricate RPGs and soul-shatteringly hard action games. I listen to a vast array of bands that bring me glee when I hear their sounds, and have a slim chance of overjoying me again when I meet someone else who's heard of them. I take and enjoy philosophy courses. I read obscure English poems. As my handle may indicate, I'm obsessed with Voltaire. I watch a whole lot of anime. I'm developing a penchant for beer snobbery. I'm writing short stories whenever I have time. I am prone to bouts of self-criticism and navel-gazing. I am painfully self-aware. I am, in short, nerdiness personified.

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Pangloss | 4:22 PM on 03.01.2008 15 comments



Just yesterday I borrowed FFIX from a friend, because I still haven't played it. I popped it into NOT MY PC TOTALLY A PLAYSTATION and got several hours into the game, when suddenly they yanked my healer from the party for story purposes, and sent me into a new area where it was made painfully obvious that I should have invested a couple hours into grinding. I even came up against a random mob that one-shotted my party members in slow succession.

I've beaten the five other Final Fantasies I've played without resorting to grinding once. Unless you count the Paladin Shield in FF6. Is there something I'm doing wrong here? This is right after the hunt festival or whatever. Please tell me I'm fucking something up, because there's nothing I hate worse than an RPG that has mandatory grinding.



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SourGr8pes's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/01/2008 16:35
SourGr8pes
You fucked up by playing FF9.

Zing!!
Artix Lumin's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/01/2008 16:37
Artix Lumin
Never had a PS so I would not know... The thing is that when I play rpg's I always grind a bit so I can get a lot of the items the monster's drop. (I am a gaming perfectionist.) Maybe you should check gamefaqs?
SPIDER PIG's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/01/2008 16:55
SPIDER PIG
and RPG without mandatory grinding, isn't that a counterdiction in terms?
Joseph Leray's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/01/2008 17:04
Joseph Leray
I fucking love this game, and remember most of the plot details. Where the hell are you, and maybe I can remember how I did it.
Gen Eric Gui's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/01/2008 17:27
Gen Eric Gui
Buy healing items if you don't have a healer mage. It's pretty simple.

You may have walked out the wrong exit, if you're where I think you are. There's a fake exit to the dragon cave thing where a bunch of level 90 Dragons roam around ready to rape you silly if you so foolishly leave through it.
notdryad's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/01/2008 17:31
notdryad
The other five without resorting to grinding? Sucks to be you because I guess you haven't played FF4 or FF6 then.
Gen Eric Gui's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/01/2008 17:33
Gen Eric Gui
Wait. Since when did FF4 or 6 require grinding?
notdryad's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/01/2008 17:39
notdryad
You have to eventually grind in FF4 Hard Type (the only version worth playing). If you make it to the end of the game without grinding you will simply be far too low level to beat Zeromus, period.

And even if you repeatedly switch people out and give everyone equal time and train them properly, you'll probably still need to do some leveling up for Kefka's Tower.
notdryad's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/01/2008 17:41
notdryad
But, please, I'd love to be proven wrong here. Go make a video of you at about level 40 beating Zeromus (because level 40 is roughly what you'd be at if you went through the game without grinding); no GBA or Easy Mode bullshit; Hard Type only.

Good luck with Big Bang killing off your party.
Ambulance-Y's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/01/2008 17:46
Ambulance-Y
in my opinion 9 was the last decent final fantasy. never really liked the ones on ps2.

oh if only i could go back and have all the time i wasted catching those damn frogs.... i'd probably just spend it catching all those dsmn frogs
notdryad's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/01/2008 17:55
notdryad
Actually I stand corrected on 4. Supposedly this japanese video I found on youtube beats Zeromus with Kain being level 31. They say it's possible if you get extremely lucky on the timing and Kain has extremely high speed.
Gen Eric Gui's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/01/2008 17:59
Gen Eric Gui
Well, I never had to grind in FF6, in any case.

I have an FF4 hardtype save near the end, wherein I've done no grinding and I'm like level 50 or so. Maybe I'll load it up one of these days and actually do it. Honestly, Zeromus is all about pattern recognition. He counters certain actions with certain moves, so if you're careful and learn when to attack him and when not to, he's easy as cake.

IIRC the basic strategy is to just have a ton of healing items in your inventory, and have three characters spend all their time healing with only two of your heaviest hitters(Edge throwing shit, Kain Jumping, Rydia + Bahamut) attacking in a round.
Gen Eric Gui's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/01/2008 18:06
Gen Eric Gui
Oh, and re: Kefka's tower, I usually just enter/exit the tower two to three times, and move my power party around to beat the bejesus out of the endgame bosses. I generally stick like, Gau, Relm, and Celes into a party with Mog and give him the Moogle Charm and Sprint Shoes, and just have him run around and find items and press switches. Then, once I clear the other two paths and get left with the statue on his side, cast Warp and run the dungeon once more really fast with that same party taking a cleared path. No reason to pointlessly level all your worthless party members up for that silly thing.
Pangloss's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/01/2008 18:38
Pangloss
@notdryad: The other five I've played are 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8. Cleared them all, no grinding necessary. The sidequests were more than enough to get my guys up to snuff for 6.

As regards where I was, the hunt festival had just finished, the black mages had just attacked whatever country Freya came from, and Dagger and Steiner had run off ahead of the party. I went to the cave they mentioned, beat a few black mages and got my ass handed to me by some weird worm-thing with a fan. It was a random, too, which is just shameful.
Red TheHaze Veron's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/01/2008 21:14
Red TheHaze Veron
I've always hated grinding but it totally made it worth it to have that feeling of badassness when I would just crush a boss in a couple of turns.
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